PETALING JAYA: While the five-year freeze on new medical programmes have been well-received, the medical fraternity and academicians have described the Government’s target to achieve a doctor to patient ratio of 1:400 by 2020 “a little too ambitious”.
They felt that the issue-at-hand was on improving the quality of medical practitioners and their posting to rural areas.
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